[Mark Drewes]

At SRP, we are standing up what we call our “Analytics Development Program,” as part of our Analytics Community, to help increase Data Literacy in the workforce.

Our main focus, initially, is on creating a common “base-level” of analytics knowledge so that students from multiple disciplines and business areas come out with a shared vocabulary and understanding of analytics, data, and methods.  Our hope is that this will lead to more analytics use, and increased collaboration between analysts over time.

Our current curriculum starts with Data Scientists from our Analytics Community leading an in-person introduction course, and then augmenting that with some online learning and regular meetups over the course of the program.

In the future, we are also planning on creating a more-compact and higher-level version of this curriculum to deliver to leaders throughout the organization.

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Mark Drewes
Business Intelligence Architect
Salt River Project
Phoenix AZ
6022365977
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-04-2020 12:49
From: Cheryl Pressley
Subject: Data Literacy

Hi all,

We’re working on developing a Data Literacy program and I would love to get some feedback from the group on the following questions:

1. If you’ve created or are creating a Data Literacy program, what categories of learning are you offering or do you plan to offer?
2. Are you identifying or planning to identify relevant training?
3. If yes, what training sources are you utilizing?

Thanks so much for your feedback!

Best regards,

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Cheryl Pressley
Data Analytics & Reporting
Southern Company
Office: 404.506.2190 | Email: ccpressl@southernco.com
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[Patrick Dever]

Hi Mark, thank for sharing.  Are you able to share your material.  We are on a similar path with our Analytics University.  We currently are using vendor provided online training and some internal Cognos developed training.  I plan to deliver a road show this year sharing common information around data governance and data privacy in partnership with my Chief of Privacy and Data Ethics.

Pat

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Patrick Dever
Chief Data Strategist
Avista Corporation
Spokane WA
509-495-8000
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-06-2020 13:13
From: Mark Drewes
Subject: Data Literacy

At SRP, we are standing up what we call our “Analytics Development Program,” as part of our Analytics Community, to help increase Data Literacy in the workforce.

Our main focus, initially, is on creating a common “base-level” of analytics knowledge so that students from multiple disciplines and business areas come out with a shared vocabulary and understanding of analytics, data, and methods.  Our hope is that this will lead to more analytics use, and increased collaboration between analysts over time.

Our current curriculum starts with Data Scientists from our Analytics Community leading an in-person introduction course, and then augmenting that with some online learning and regular meetups over the course of the program.

In the future, we are also planning on creating a more-compact and higher-level version of this curriculum to deliver to leaders throughout the organization.

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Mark Drewes
Business Intelligence Architect
Salt River Project
Phoenix AZ
6022365977
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-04-2020 12:49
From: Cheryl Pressley
Subject: Data Literacy

Hi all,

We’re working on developing a Data Literacy program and I would love to get some feedback from the group on the following questions:

1. If you’ve created or are creating a Data Literacy program, what categories of learning are you offering or do you plan to offer?
2. Are you identifying or planning to identify relevant training?
3. If yes, what training sources are you utilizing?

Thanks so much for your feedback!

Best regards,

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Cheryl Pressley
Data Analytics & Reporting
Southern Company
Office: 404.506.2190 | Email: ccpressl@southernco.com
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[Kaz Shakir]

Cheryl / Mark / Pat:

I had a question for you – what do you mean by Data Literacy?  In other words, what are you hoping to accomplish with this curriculum?  TVA, my employer, has implemented something similar, although I think it’s just in a pilot and not rolled out to the whole company.  But it’s not really clear to me what we expect to accomplish with these courses.  We are still in the early stages of curation of our data – meaning that data still “lives” in various different data sources, and some of them talk to each other, but others don’t, and there’s no central catalog of all of the data available, so not everyone knows where to get data, and there are duplicated sources in some instances, and not a “single source of truth.”  It seems to me that all of these issues really need to be resolved, so that the Enterprise Data Lake (or warehouse) becomes the single source for information for everyone in the organization; and then we could spend some time educating people about how to work with the data to extract relevant analyses.  I just feel like if we conduct these courses now, we spend most of the time in the courses talking about how to connect to various data sources, and not enough time talking about how to extract the relevant data and analyze it correctly.

I also think that once you have a good data lake / warehouse, and make it available to everyone, people will learn the techniques they need on their own, and you won’t need a detailed curriculum.

That’s just my two-cents worth.

Kaz.

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Kaz Shakir
Sr. Program Manager, Power Operations Asset Planning
The Tennessee Valley Authority
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-04-2020 12:49
From: Cheryl Pressley
Subject: Data Literacy

Hi all,

We’re working on developing a Data Literacy program and I would love to get some feedback from the group on the following questions:

1. If you’ve created or are creating a Data Literacy program, what categories of learning are you offering or do you plan to offer?
2. Are you identifying or planning to identify relevant training?
3. If yes, what training sources are you utilizing?

Thanks so much for your feedback!

Best regards,

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Cheryl Pressley
Data Analytics & Reporting
Southern Company
Office: 404.506.2190 | Email: ccpressl@southernco.com
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